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Netflix’s Minerva Academy places its teenage characters inside a military high school that feels almost removed from modern life. Salvo, Vincenzo, Camilla and the other cadets live among historic corridors, ceremonial courtyards and formal rooms while following rules that ban mobile phones, restrict civilian clothes and demand military-style discipline. Although Minerva itself is fictional, the…
Echo Canyon becomes one of the darkest parts of Prime Video’s Neagley when Frances discovers that the apparently isolated community is connected to secret experiments involving a drug called Tranqlara. Despite the disturbingly plausible setup, there is no indication that Echo Canyon is a real cult or that the series is dramatizing one specific real-life…
Baltegrad in Vigil Season 3 does not appear to be a real town. It is a fictional Russian settlement created for the series, but the idea behind it has a clear real-world parallel on Svalbard. The actual archipelago has Barentsburg, a Russian mining settlement with a history stretching back more than a century. That real…
“The Whisper Man” begins with a place that looks ordinary enough to offer a grieving family a fresh start. Tom Kennedy, a widowed crime writer, moves with his young son Jake after the death of his wife, hoping that a quieter life might help them recover. Instead, Jake disappears, and Tom is forced back into…
“Finding Emily” turns a missing phone-number digit into an excuse to explore Manchester almost street by street. Spike Fearn plays Owen, a musician and university sound technician who meets a girl named Emily during a night out and believes he has found someone special. The problem arrives the next morning, when he realizes the number…
A teenage prank is supposed to expose an unfaithful boyfriend in “To Catch a Cheater.” Instead, it becomes the beginning of a murder mystery. Kate Watson plays Monica, a mother whose teenage daughter Hannah dies under circumstances that do not make sense to her, even after authorities appear ready to close the case. Monica’s attempts…
Netflix’s Love Is Blind: UK returns for Season 3 with another group of singles willing to get engaged before seeing each other, but the experiment is not nearly as British behind the camera as its title suggests. The new season was filmed across Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom, following the multi-country production model used…
Anyone coming into Reacher Season 4 after reading Gone Tomorrow will notice the change almost immediately. Lee Child opens the novel on the New York City subway. Prime Video puts Alan Ritchson’s Reacher on Philadelphia’s Broad Street Line instead. The switch was deliberate. Showrunner Nick Santora has explained that Philadelphia was chosen partly because the…
Giving up a child for adoption is a decision Cynthia has spent 15 years learning to live with. In Lifetime’s “The Daughter I Gave Away,” that distance suddenly disappears when she learns that the daughter she never raised has vanished from her adoptive home. Cynthia, played by Romina D’Ugo, refuses to remain a concerned stranger…
Few movies have made paradise look quite as threatening as The Shallows. Jaume Collet-Serra’s stripped-down 2016 survival thriller follows Nancy Adams, played by Blake Lively, as she travels to an unnamed beach in Mexico that held special meaning for her late mother. What begins as a solitary surfing trip becomes a brutal fight for survival…
Don’t Say Good Luck gives the familiar high-school musical story a considerably heavier burden to carry. Sunny Sandler stars as Sophie Birenbaum, a 15-year-old theater kid who unexpectedly wins the lead role of Jenna in her school’s production of Waitress. Her biggest artistic opportunity arrives almost simultaneously with devastating news: her mother Elizabeth’s cancer has…
The Insidious franchise is leaving the Lambert family behind, but it certainly has not finished with The Further. Directed by Jacob Chase, Insidious: Out of the Further introduces Gemma, played by Amelia Eve, a young mother raising her daughter in the house where she grew up. Gemma discovers that she can enter The Further, the…
